8. Kessler has a separate Facebook fan page that posted this status on Tuesday night, asking followers to “choose sides” against Democrats.

“That’s why I used the vocabulary I did. As for the firing of the guns, that is my Second Amendment right. I have the right to keep and bear arms regardless of what the government says that I don’t. I didn’t write the Constitution, and there is nowhere in the Constitution where it gives any government the right to regulate freedom of speech and expression and the right to bear arms. Like I said, I didn’t write the Constitution. I just try to follow it.”

11. The Gilberton mayor’s office says that Kessler will not be disciplined.

Each member of council, each employee and each citizen is not only entitled to their own political opinions, but also the right to express them. We will not take action to quash free speech, whether or not each member of council or any member of council agrees with it.”

13. Kessler made news in 2011, when he was involved in an altercation while off duty and shot himself in the hand with his firearm.